beauty, 1;
on Diana at Moore’s parties, 1;
Diana on, 1;
and Duff and Diana, 1;
on The Miracle tour in USA, 1, 2;
life-style, 1;
on Duff’s manner, 1;
baby, 1;
travels with Diana, 1, 2, 3;
at Diana’s burglary, 1;
death, 1
Tree, Maud, Lady, 1, 2, 3, 4
Tree, Ronald, 1
Tree, Viola, see Parsons, Viola
Trefusis, Marjorie, 1
Trefusis, Violet (formerly Keppel), 1, 2, 3, 4
Tring, 1
Tunis, Sidi Mohammed al Amiin, Bey of, 1
Tyrell, Sir William, Baron, 1, 2
Vanbrugh, Violet, 1
Vanier, George, 1
Variety, 1
Venice, 1, 2, 3, 4
Vercors [pseud., i.e. J. M. Bruller], 1
Vernon, George, 8th Baron, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Victoria, Queen, 1, 2
Vienna, 1
Vilmorin, Louise de, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; death, 1
Virgin Queen, The (film), 1
Wade, Kate (maid), 1, 2, 3
Wakefield, Daphne, 1, 2
Walmer Castle, 1
Wantage, Robert, J. Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron, 1
Ward, Mrs Dudley, 1
Warner, Jack, 1
Warwick Avenue (London), 1, 2, 3
Washington, DC, 1
Watts, George Frederick, 1, 2
Waugh, Evelyn: relations with Diana, 1, 2, 3; and Diana’s supposed infidelities, 1;
on Diana and Conrad Russell, 1;
on Diana at Admiralty House, 1;
in Second War, 1;
visits Bognor, 1;
on Algiers house, 1;
visits Algiers, 1, 2;
in Paris, 1, 2;
on Louise de Vilmorin, 1;
and Diana’s religious faith, 1;
quarrels on visits to Chantilly, 1;
and John Julius’ engagement, 1;
and Duff’s death, 1, 2;
and Artemis, 1;
and Diana’s memoirs, 1, 2;
and Diana’s burglary, 1;
death, 1;
and prayer, 1
Wavell, Field Marshal Archibald, 1st Earl, 1
Waverley, Lady, see Anderson, Ava, Lady
Webb, Clifton, 1
Weiller, Paul Louis, 1, 2, 3, 4‚ 5‚ 6, 7‚ 8
Welbeck Abbey, 1
Welby-Gregory, Nina (Mrs Harry Cust), 1
Wells, H. G., 1, 2, 3
Wemyss, Francis, 8th Earl of, 1
Wemyss, Grace, Countess of, 1, 2
Westminster, Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor (‘Bendor’), 2nd Duke of, 1, 2
Westminster, Loelia, Duchess of, 1, 2
Weymouth, Daphne, Viscountess, see Fielding, Daphne
Weymouth, Henry Thynne, Viscount (later 6th Marquess of Bath), 1
Wharf, The (house), 1, 2
Whistler, Rex, 1
White, Sam, 1, 2
White’s Club (London), 1, 2
Whitney, Jock, 1
William, Crown Prince of Germany, 1
Williams, Ralph Vaughan, 1
Wilson, Sir Matthew (‘Scatters’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 135
Wilson, Lady Sarah, 1
Wilton (house), 1
Wimborne, Alice, Viscountess, 1
Wimborne, Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount: relations with Diana, 1, 2‚ 3‚ 4, 5, 6, 7‚ 8, 9, 10; sale of house, 1;
fear of fire, 1
Windsor Castle, 1
Windsor, Edward, Duke of (earlier Prince of Wales; then King Edward V111): as Diana’s suitor, 1, 2, 3, 4; Rutlands entertain, 1;
in New York, 1, 2;
friendship with Diana, 1;
cruise with Diana, 1;
relations with Coopers, 1;
and Wallis Simpson, 1;
Mediterranean cruise in Nahlin, 1;
abdication, 1;
wartime pessimism, 1;
and Coopers in Paris, 1, 2;
invited to Harvey’s Embassy, 1
Windsor, Wallis, Duchess of (formerly Mrs Simpson), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Wodehouse, P. G., 1
Wolff, Elsie de, 1
Woodhouse, The (Rowsley), 1, 2, 3
Wyatt, James, 1
Wyndham, George, 1
Wyndham, John (1st Baron Egremont), 1
Wyndham, Violet, 1
York, Duke of, see George VI, King
Young, Canon Andrew, 1
Young, Francis Brett, 1
Youssupoff, Felix, Prince, 1, 2
Zaharoff, Sir Basil, 1
Diana with the Duke of Rutland at Arlington Street in about 1616
Diana’s sisters Marjorie and Violet – ‘Letty’
Marjorie became Marchioness of Anglesey, Letty successively Lady Elcho and Lady Violet Benson
Diana’s mother, Violet, Duchess of Rutland
Edward Horner, ‘strikingly handsome and with a good nature and bonhomie that shone from his face’
Henry Cust, a drawing of 1892 by the Duchess of Rutland
Patrick Shaw-Stewart, ‘pallid, freckled, red-haired’
Diana a year or so before the end of the Great War.
Raymond Asquith – ‘Most noble in presence and with every grace of voice and manner,’ wrote John Buchan, ‘he moved among men like a being from another world’
Diana as Lady Beatrice Fair in her first colour film, The Glorious Adventure, 1921.
Motoring in France with Lord Wimborne in 1921
Diana electioneering, with her son John Julius voicing opposition.
Tending the pigs, a photograph by Cecil Beaton.
As the Madonna in The Miracle
A group photograph taken in California in 1926, at the time of The Miracle. From left to right: Kaetchen Kommer, Iris Tree, Max Reinhardt, Diana, Morris Gest.
Duff at work in the cottage near Bognor
Duff with Louise de Vilmorin in Paris.
At the Embassy in Paris with the Ernest Bevins
John Julius and Anne Norwich with their daughter Artemis in Beirut in 1950.
Diana in Venice, dressed for the Beistegui Ball.
The Madonna revived, with Lord Goodman at a fancy-dress ball in Wiltshire
With the neighbours (Lord Kinross and Sir Lennox Berkeley) protesting against an offensive road sign outside her house in Little Venice.
Diana at a party with the inevitable Doggie
About the Author
Philip Ziegler (born 1929) is one of Britain’s most distinguished biographers and historians. His works include biographies of Diana Cooper, Lord Melbourne, Mountbatten, Harold Wilson and Osbert Sitwell. He is currently working on the authorised biography of Edward Heath.
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